FOCUS: REGULATION
CMS seeks to place Netcare scheme under curatorship
In yet another clash with the healthcare industry, and following recent accusations of hostility and harassment, the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) has applied to place Netcare Medical Scheme under curatorship, writes MedicalBrief.
Netcare Medical Scheme is opposing the application by the CMS, accusing the regulator of lacking justification, and with Craig Taylor, principal officer of the Netcare Medical Scheme, saying the application related to a technical issue from 2022 that had been corrected at the time.
“We believe the curatorship...
FOCUS: PUBLIC HEALTH
Communities mourn murdered medics
The medical fraternity has been hit with more tragedy with the unrelated murders of two healthcare workers this week; a Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal paediatrician, Dr Zamambo Siphokazi Mkhize, and a Westbury, Johannesburg pharmacist, Faizel "Faya" McKenzie.
This comes shortly after a Pietermaritzburg pharmacist was gunned down at a busy intersection in Plessislaer, and Donbsonville doctor Michael Isabelle was murdered in his surgery last month. None of the incidents are related.
The Witness reports that Mkhize’s VW Polo was found abandoned in Imbali...